The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-03-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Ill a her home In jackson. Mich.
THE final passage of the Canadian Re
taliation bin by Congress took the Lon
don papers and public officials by sur
prise.
Mrs. WARD, who was recently shot by
her husband, the Englewood (N. j. per-
son, has made n statement Of how the
shooting was done. 1t seems there had
been a quarrel.
AN extended report was submitted to
Congress on tho 81 by the Curtin select
committee, which was appointed to inves-
tigate the railroad strikes in the West.
They do not lay all the blame on the
strikers.
OK the 81 tho bill authorizing the con-
'struction Of a new bridge at Kansas City,
Mo, was passed by the Senate and has
been approved by the President The
President signed the bill giving the
Chicago, Rock Island q Pacific railroad
utght Of way through the Indian Terri
cory,
SECRETARY ESDICoTT has approved the
recommendation Of the chief Of engineers
that the con Instruction Of tho Baltimore az
Ohio bridge over the Arthur Kill be per-
mitted, provided the requirements Of the
rule of the department of July 81, 1886, be
complied with.
ON the night Of the 2d f. o. Thomas,
who has been running shirt factory and
doing good business in Cedar Rapids,
AG-s 4OE INC past IlONhl, ltLL IOE ~. Z dul
Previous to going and after banking hours,
Thomas secured money on forged drafts.
When the discovery was made on the 81,
of the forgery further revelations FOL
lowed which showed him to have
worked" us friends quite systematic
ally.
II is learned upon most trustworthy au-
.thority that the President intends to ap-
point Mr.. Oscar S. Strauss, Of New York,
70 the vacant Turkish mission. Congress-
man Tucker, it is understood, was offered
and declined the appointment. Mr. Strauss
is a wealthy Hebrew or New York, about
forty-fve years old.
OK the 81 the fact quietly leaked out at
Buffalo, N. V, that Miss Margaret Math-
or, the famous theatrical star, had been
secretly married, the ceremony being per-
formed in that city about two weeks pre-
viOusly. Mr.. Emil HabercD Drn, leader OF
the orchestra Of the Union Square Thea
ter, New York, is the happy groom
REV PETER BECKX, Superior General
of the order of Jesuit5, diel at Rome on
tho 4th.
GovERNoR HUI has removed General
.Shaler from of1ico in the Health Depart
ment Of New York City.
THE relatives Of Lieutenant G. 0vernor
Mcdonald of Michigan have been looking
for him for thirty-nine years and have
just learned his whereabouts.
Mrs JAMES bkOW " TEX Is AI ltlSb dlA
actress 'by profession" On the 4th she
signed contract to Fl l an engagement at
tho Haymarket Theatre London.
NO one welcomes tho adjournment OF
Congress more than Mrs. Cleveland, as
she is completely ti-ed out from her re-
cent onerous social duties, and wants a
few weeks of undisturbed rest
1T is said at the White House that there
is no probability of n special session of
the Senate being called by the President
for the purpose of acting on nominations
or for any other purpose
The dcath-rou of the Forty-ninth Con
gress was an extraordinary one, comprfs
ing the unprecedented number Of thirteen
names in the House and Senate They
are those or Vice President Hendricks
president Of tho Senate; Senators Miller
Of California; Pike, of New Hamp
shire, and Logan, of Illinois; and Repre-
sentatives Hahn, of Louisiana; Arnot
Beach AMI Dowdney, Of New York; Price
Of Wisconsin; Cole, of Maryland; Elwood
Of Illinois; Duncan, of Pennsylvania, anc
Rankin, Of Wisconsin.
EX-CONGRESsMAN T. BREITUNG, o
Negauree Mich, died at Eastman, Ga, a
midnight of tho 81, of pneumonia. Mr.
Breitung was a pioneer Of the upper pen
ansula, where he lived the past twentl
years, representing his district in tn
Forty-eighth Congress. His possession
were estimated at from S5,0CO010 to 81,
900, eco all Of which was made out of irol
lands. He leaves a widow and sixteen
year-old son.
MOTHER ANGELA dieI at st. Mary
Academy. South Bond, Ind, on the 4th
She wls closely related by knship t
General Thomas Ewing, General Sherma
and James G.. Blaine and was famous 10
her charitable life in connection with tn
Order Of Sisters OF the Holy Cross.
AuALr- nUsuEL Of Presidential vetoes
mum bering 10 in all, was among the IN
pedimcnta of he House clerks Office whc
Congress adjourned.
BY a recent order Of the President tn
military reservation of Fort Colville, W
r., has Ecen transferred to the Depar
ment Of the Interior for disposition uudc
the ac of July > 1854
BRlGApIER GENERAL ORLANDO b. WI
BON, commanding the Department Of tn
Nilsson ri win be retired in April on a
count Of age.
RFv. Henry WARD BEECuER is lying
deaths door from stroke of apCplcX.
accompanied by paralysis Of the left sid,
The attack developed on the 4th, but as
aumCd dangerous phase on the evenin
of the 5th.
EX-SENATOR JONES, of Florida, wants {
be reelected, ard, it is said, promises SCI
sational reasons for his continued absenC
from Washington.
TuE President celebrated the adjourn
ment Of Congress by granting numo'
of pardous TO United States prisoners.
MRS. JAMES BRowN-PoTTER dined wit
the Prince and Princess Of Wales at Man
borough House on the 9th.
CONNIODoEE f. Il. LULL, United SJat'
Navy, died at Pensacola, Fla, on the 81
IT is hiutci that the confirmation
Trotter as Register Of Deeds for the Di
trict of Columbia was brought abo1
through fear on the part of the Repu
Iicans that his rejection would cost the
the colored vote OF Massachusetts.
LIEUTENANT-COL r. n SCOT
Third artillery, chief of the pubhcatiC
office Of the war records Of tine rcbellio
died in Washington on the 5,h, of pne
monia.
Mr. G.. HARRIS HEAP, the United stat
ConsulG General at Constantiuoplc, died
that city on the 9th.
TIE aggregate of the appropriation bil
passed by the Fory-nn,h Congress
about S250,OO0,OOo, exclusive of the bill
which failed of enactment
WILLIAM Cook, one Of the seven orga
izcrs of the knights Of Labor. died
Philadelphia on the 6,h, aged siXty-h'
years.
TuE President has commissioned c,
lector Mag0ue of the Port Of New NOr
no having clvcd heretofore under 7
cess commission.
Tracy TITUS the we'll known theatric
maLager, died ON the 5th at Sierra Mad
villa, Los Angeles. Cal
THE London Dissenting churches,
their services on the 9th, took sympathe'
notice Of Mr.. Beechcr's illness.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will be of
years old sd the 18TH inst.
THE remains of Mother Angela we
buried at south Bend, Ind, on the 9th.
Mrs SESATou BECN died suddenly
" ashingtou 90 the q b.
Mrs Ruin UtuM3N, a ndmother
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